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Courts & crime, 1952

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Five tribesmen killed in clash with police

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

MEKNES (Morocco), Sun.: Five Moroccans were killed in a clash yesterday between tribesmen and police in a village…

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Naval Airman Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 15

A young naval airman apprehended on a charge of using a motor cycle without consent of the owner allegedly told police…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Laborer fined £10 for stealing cheque form belonging to workmate

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 15

A 46-year-old laborer who pleaded guilty to stealing a cheque form from a workmate at Corowa was fined £10 in default 20 days in Albury Court yesterday. The laborer, Thomas John…

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41 sentenced for war-time massacre

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 7

LUCCA (Italy), Mon.: Forty-one former Italian Communist partisans, who were found guilty of being involved in a massacre…

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Police News

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

On Saturday last Charles Richard Ryan, of the Naval Air Station, Nowra, was arrested in Corowa and charged with…

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Migrant on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Mon.: Miroflav Tuma, 27, of Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, who is charged with having murdered Alfred Nils Dahlberg, 35,…

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Traffic Police at School

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

The Municipal Council will ask the officer in charge of police at Hay to have a constable on duty at the primary school during the…

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More Strike Talk by Queensland Police

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 8

BRISBANE, Mon.: The Premier (Mr Gair) will announce his decision on the Police Union’s executive claims either tomorrow or…

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More Admissions of Black-marketing in Beer, Cigarettes Judge threatens to send restaurant manager to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 10

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) today threatened to commit a witness to gaol unless he answered questions concerning the source of his beer supplies. The witness, Lars…

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Youths Charged After Smash

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 1

Two youths were charged at Wodonga police station with illegally using a car following an accident…

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Police to begin regulation strike

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.: A meeting of 150 detectives and uniformed men tonight decided to a regulation strike immediately…

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Man and woman for trial on charge of murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 14

SYDNEY, Tues.: Ronald William Simpson, 28, and Mary Lillion Temmerup, 30, was today committed for trial on a charge of having mudered John William Toom, 52, of Menai, whose body was found in a yard at…

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Driver charged following fatal accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: A 65-year-old invalid pensioner was killed tonight when hit by a truck at Glebe. He was Walter Scott, of Bridge…

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Police raid fashionable club

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.: Members of 21 Division special mobile squad arrested 21 persons in a raid on fashionable Gleneagles’…

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Police to hold mass meeting

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.: All available policemen within 100 miles if Brisbane will be asked to attend a mass meeting of the Police…

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Man to be re-tried on charge of murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The retrial of Stanley Henry Shaw, 31, on a charge of murdering his defacto wife, Sylvia Holmes, at Fitzroy in…

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Three Months for Stealing Motor Cycle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 1

At the Albury Court on Monday last, Thomas John Ryan was [?]ed £10 for [?]tealing a cheque from a workmate…

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Items of News Theft From Garage

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 2

Albury detectives are investigating the theft of two “Seagull” outboard motors, an old double barrelled shotgun, a quantity of…

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Two men gaoled for year in Albury Court for the illegal use of motor car

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 4

The day after they had illegally taken a car from Darlinghurst, two young men were sentenced to 12 months’ gaol at Albury Court. Both admitted a number of previous convictions…

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Police guard for pilot; 52 people die in air disaster

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 1

SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico), Sun.: The Government yesterday placed a police guard over Captain John Burn, and refused to allow him to leave his room at a hospital. Captain Burn piloted the Pan American…

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